Habermas praised the very thinkers Adorno identified as Critical Theory’s chief opponents.
Evidence
However, even a year before he joined the Institute, he had written a review for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describing Gehlen and Schelsky’s textbook of modern sociology 75 as exemplarya book written by the very two people Adorno saw as Critical Theory’s principal opponents. … Adorno regarded Helmut Schelsky as particularly dangerous because he showed his fascist tendencies less openly than others did. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 566
Categorization
- XREF: Links the Institute’s external intellectual rivals to its internal succession crisis. — connects to: Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2323; Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746
- DEEPTHINKING: The future heir of Critical Theory arrives via reviews endorsing its designated enemies — a paradox worth sitting with about how schools of thought actually renew themselves.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2323; Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746
Broader Connections
- Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs.
#complicates(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2323 - Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject.
#complicates(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2746